We bought food... you know, so we could eat it.
On Sept. 8th, before our trip out of town, we bought:
Eggs $1.5
Milk $1.5
=total $3
Upon our return, Sept. 23rd, we bought:
Apples $3
Bananas $1
Yogurt $2.5
Grits $1
Bacon $2.5
Powdered Milk $8
Jelly $2
=total $20
We switched to powdered milk after we did a test run a couple of weeks ago after reading this article:
http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2007/09/08/how-to-feed-yourself-for-15-a-week/
So far the powdered milk is a good option for us. It's cheaper, it doesn't go bad as quickly and seems a bit... um... cleaner? It works well for cereal, recipies and I've even used our Budget Cappucino machine to make pasable lattes (our tip on cheap mixed coffee drinks? cheap espresso tastes just as good when you plan to add a heavy flavor like chocolate to your mix). I'll let you know if we plan to change, but so far, it's really nice just being able to make a quart or two of milk rather than having to run to the store for a "fresh" gallon.
So far, no plans to swap out to powdered eggs or freeze-dried beer.
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Several years ago, I was on the $15/week food budget. I survived by making lots of fried rice, which reheats very well. Rice and eggs are cheap, and I'd buy whatever veggies were on sale and add a shit-ton of them. There also were one or two incidents where I ate bread for dinner.
We haven't done any fried rice, but we buy these killer bags of Jasmine rice in bulk at our warehouse store and they last us foreverlong. Mmmmm. Rice!
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